"100 Days Until Halloween" Day 149 ~ Dog With A...

Martini!

"100 Degrees Until Halloween" Day 146 ~ One Week Left!!

One week until this 153 day photo project is complete.  I didn't know if I would make it, but here we are!  

In photographing the light from June 1 to Oct 31 has really made me realize in a new way the changing of the seasons.  Last night, this was the view from the porch at 5:45 pm-- the blue-pink sunset and the darkness that settled in is a far cry from Day 28 where you can feel the red-pink hot sweaty heat.  

"100 Degrees Until Halloween" Day 137 ~ Soccer Tuesday Update

Silly boy...

"100 Degrees Until Halloween" Day 131. Vast.

"100 Degrees Until Halloween" Day 129 ~ Cactus Love

I live in the desert and every once in a while I am fortunate enough to find a heart-shaped prickly pear cactus...Cactus love.  (Although I think that is evident all over this photoblog).

"100 Degrees Until Halloween" Day 123 ~ October

It is official.  I am WRONG.  It does not feel like it is 100 degree weather until Halloween.  That was my dramatic self back on June 1st thinking "this is going to be a loooongggg summer!"  It does stay in the 90s during the day (which does NOT feel like Fall);  however, we desert rats "feel" the change.  The mornings are cooler.  Soccer practice is more tolerable (for players as well as parents).  The sun sets earlier.  And hey, people still put up Halloween decorations on Oct 1!   Here's my homage to a desert fall.

"100 Degrees Until Halloween" Day 120~ This is (adorable) 11 (IMO)

11 looks good on her.  I know the teen years are coming...I know it...but for now, I am happy:

1) being called "mommy" 

2) eyes that don't roll (too much) 

3) spontaneous hugs

"100 Degrees Until Halloween" Day 113 ~ Glow!

The harvest moon brings not cooler weather, but cool events to Tucson (or Oracle, AZ, in this case).  One we attended last night called Glow.  It's an outdoor festival of light with artists and vendors and you walk around in the dark and look at the lighted art installations.

The act that I had heard about on Arizona Public Media radio was called Circus Amperean...people in special suits standing on a large tesla coil and shooting electricity out of their fingers, among other things.  They did not disappoint.

"100 Degrees Until Halloween" Day 112 ~ Last day of summer (on the calendar)

"100 Degrees Until Halloween" Day 110 ~ I.Rolled.My.Window.Down.

It was so "cool" this morning on my way to drop the kids at school, I rolled.my.window.down.  Yay Fall!  It takes until 8 am to turn on the A/C (instead of 6 am).

"100 Degrees Until Halloween" Day 109 ~ Yes, Sun, Please Hide...

...because it's five days until Fall.  And we, in the "it's still 100 degrees" states are not feeling that fall feeling (although I DID make pumpkin bread today...I just had to pump the AC down to account for the oven being on)

"100 Degrees Until Halloween" Day 108 ~ Afternoon Light...

...on the volleyball floor (@ BASIS Tucson North where my 6th grade daughter plays).  This was taken at 5 pm (where, at this time back East, it's getting kinda dark) and here it was bright shiny daylight streaming through the windows.  (They won, btw).

"100 Degrees Until Halloween" Day 107 ~ All That Remains...

...In our summer garden.

"100 Degrees Until Halloween" Day 106 ~ Palms Under The Moon

Sigh...these are the days that make this whole project what it is.  June 1- Aug 30? Eh, tough to get through, with the heat and all, but the monsoons DO start and that daily-ish anticipation makes it bearable.  September comes, and monsoons go and it's still hitting 100...until Halloween.  And right now is what this project is all about.  The last 105 days be-damned.  It's the next 47 that is what it's all about...  Hang in peeps.

"100 Degrees Until Halloween" Day 105 ~ Photo Shoot Prep

Practicing taking "hip shots" while waiting for a photo shoot to start...this is my gear.

"100 Degrees Until Halloween" Day 104 ~ Soccer Sunset

There are soooo many of these in my past and future...

"100 Degrees Until Halloween" Day 102 ~ She's (still) screamin'...

...for ice cream (apparently we left it off the grocery list this week).

Summer sure isn't over yet...

"100 Degrees Until Halloween" Day 93 ~ Glorious.

I couldn't pick just one picture for today.  In fact, I really wanted to do a huge collage.  It was a glorious day of boys going fishing, girls reading in hammocks, walking through a meadow full of wildflowers, girls fishing with thunder cracking all around, crayfish being caught on shore and finally JUST after dinner was cooked open an open flame,  a  stupendous rainstorm that had us all huddled happily (and with food) under the quick up shade perfectly tarped to keep out the rain.  And once that rain stopped...a walk to see an incredible sunset over the lake.  

"100 Degrees Until Halloween" Day 92 ~ Soggy Campsite (Big Lake, AZ)

"100 Degrees Until Halloween" Day 88 ~ Loom!!

Ah, peaceful rainbow loom.  My kids are choosing this over..gasp..television lately.  They sit, they loom, they make up silly songs.  I LOVE it!!!